Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 20:06, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: 1. A `.mergemasterrc' file in

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-18 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 20:06, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: 1. A

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:34:26PM -0600, J. Porter Clark wrote: Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files like these: /etc/aliases /etc/hosts

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files like these: /etc/aliases /etc/hosts

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: Please consider submitting this as a PR in hopes it gets included in the actual package. 1. A

Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-16 Thread J. Porter Clark
Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files like these: /etc/aliases /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow /etc/manpath.config ... and many others.